Definitions for eminences

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eminences em·i·nence

Spelling: [em-uh-nuh ns]

IPA: /ˈɛm ə nəns/

Eminences is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in eminences (ceeeimnns).

Definitions for eminences

noun

1. high station, rank, or repute:
2. a high place or part; a hill or elevation; height.
3. (initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Church. a title of honor, applied to cardinals (usually preceded by His or Your).
4. Anatomy. an elevation or projection, especially on a bone.

Origin of eminences

1375-1425; late Middle English Anglo-French Latin ēminentia, equivalent to ēmin- (base of ēminēre to stand out; see eminent) + -entia -ence

Examples for eminences

Forthwith a few examples, in no particular order of eminence.

Strange was the scene which met their eyes from this eminence.

“He was very bitter,” says longtime Granite State Republican eminence and former state attorney general Tom Rath.

In the centre of the island is an eminence, which was occupied by the garrison, and had some artillery.

They ascended that eminence which is the pass into the Alpuxarras.

They could not now descend from the eminence on which they stood.

Tayoun served almost three years, but remained an eminence on the Philadelphia political scene.

They stand on the eminence that forms the background of my present view.

The eminence was asked, the next morning, “Well, you've met the young Yeats— what did you think of him?”

“Mr. de la Renta is far more a hot dog than an eminence grise of American fashion” Horyn wrote in her review.